I am afraid I am not qualify to say whether the Chinese Character is, or not a brake on development of its language.<p>But I do have a story to share, just one story, nothing more.<p>When I was a kid studying in UK, during an Art Session we had to cut a black card and overlay on top of white paper to create some form of Art. I have absolutely no idea what to do! Compared to some of my classmate who start creating and cutting some beautiful images, I was starring in the air and didn&#x27;t know what to do. I try cut a few things but they all look so dull, ugly and meaningless in my mind.<p>After 30 mins of not going anywhere, my teacher came around and pat on my back, he said, &quot;Beauty is in the eye of beholder. It doesn&#x27;t really have to mean anything, it could just be some random cutting, some shape or even some words like your name. It doesn&#x27;t matter. Try your best&quot;<p>At that moment i really needed some encouragement, So i thought, since everyone were doing something good and fancy, why dont I cut out a Chinese word? He did said some words. Since i am the only Chinese in the class, surely no one would be doing it and no one would understand it anyway.<p>So in the remaining 15 min or so I drafted out the Chinese letter &quot;愛&quot;, ( meaning love ), it is complex enough and easy to explain.<p>In the end when everyone were presenting their work to our teacher, I still remember the look on his face when he saw mine, he was, awkwardly staring at it for 30 seconds, without making a single noise. The silence was quite intense I was thinking I make some crap...<p>&quot;What is this?&quot; He asked.
&quot;A Chinese Letter&quot; 
&quot;What does it mean?&quot;
&quot;Love&quot;
&quot;This is beautiful! This is actually a letter?&quot;
&quot;Yes&quot;<p>I thought all these were just some encouragement so i dont look too bad. When we left the classroom, I turn around and my teacher was still standing there staring at my form &quot;art&quot;.  
Later on that Week my teacher asked me privately to make him a few more of these Chinese Characters, I wrote out a few so he could choose, he was truly fascinated at the act form of these Characters.<p>I couldn&#x27;t grasp the idea then. Because I never saw them as act, merely as what the article suggest as a painful tool to write. It was only as i grow older and older, did i start to appreciate this beautiful form of Chinese glyph.<p>I hope you all too, would some day appreciate the beauty of these characters.