Ah, well, if it looks like this, it's autumn:
Symbolically, it breaks down to Grain/Rice, Fire, Sky/Day. Put that together and you get autumn.
As for recognizing characters, after a while it just becomes a symbol that represents "Autumn" and "Day". It's just a symbol. People do it with English, as well. Read this:
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
You can still read the above because you treat each word as a symbol.
