• KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Very slightly differently, depending on dialect the latter 打+工人gongren could be gōngrén or gōngren (i.e. toneless for the rén).

    Only for the dialects that pronounce it gōngren would the two meanings be also pronounced slightly differently.

    Otherwise, both are pronounced the same, so the distinction would be a mental word break