減量

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 減量 is read as げんりょう and is a noun and する verb for reducing body weight or decreasing the weight or quantity of a load or material.
• Basic usage: Reducing the weight of luggage appears in 荷物の減量, while cutting body weight before a match appears in 試合前の減量.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Used for body weight and other loads
  • It is not limited to losing body weight and can also describe lowering the weight of baggage or a product.
• Difference from ダイエット
  • Compared with dieting for health or appearance, this term broadly denotes the reduction in weight itself.