> Are the first lines hiragana, then the second ones kanji? Yes. > Are they always pronounced the same? The hiragana show how the kanji is read in this parti

> Are the first lines hiragana, then the second ones kanji? Yes. > Are they always pronounced the same? The hiragana show how the kanji is read in this particular sentence, but most common kanji have at least two readings (kunyomi/Japanese and on'yomi/Chinese) and there can be 30+ for pathological cases like 生. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F#Japanese https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F#Japanese