Editing Shcha (section)

==Form==
The form of the letter shcha is considered to have originated as a [[Ligature (writing)|ligature]] of the letters Ш and Т.<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Alexandre |last1=Chodzko |first2=Aleksander Borejko |last2=Chodźko |url=https://archive.org/details/grammairepalosl00chodgoog |title=Grammaire paléoslave, suivie de textes paléoslaves |date=1869 |publisher=[s. n.] |via=Oxford University collection|language=French}}</ref> However in later orthographies it began to be depicted as the letter [[Sha (Cyrillic)|Cyrillic Sha (Ш ш)]] with a [[descender]]. The descender (also used in [[Tse (Cyrillic)|Ц]]) has been reinterpreted as a [[diacritic]] and used in several letters for non-Slavic languages, such as [[Ң]] and [[Қ]].