Ge with descender (ö ÷; italics: <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">ö ÷</span>) is a letter of the Cyrillic script formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge (àó <span style="font-family: times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: larger">àó</span>) by adding a descender. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with descender".
Ge with descender is used in the alphabets of the following languages:
Ge with descender can sometimes appear as having a hook instead of a descender (, , sometimes ÃÂá óá, italics: ÃÂá óá), as an allograph found in Ket and sometimes Nivkh, and in the transcription of Eskaleut languages.
Ge with hook is used in the literature of Nivkh to represent the voiced uvular plosive [â], and is sometimes represented instead with the ge with descender . It is used, in particular, in the Sakhalin dialects and not in the Amur dialect of the Russian Far East.
Ge with hook has the hook attached to the right in Nivkh in Taksami 1996, as well as Eskaleut languages works such as Ainana 1994, and Vakhtin 2003, in the Chaplino dialect in Menovchtchikov 1988, Menovchtchikov and Vakhtin 1990, Sigunylik 2003, in Naukan Yupik in Menovchtchikov 1975.
Ge with hook has not yet been encoded in Unicode. In theory, it is possible to use the letter ge with descender with fonts or adapted applications in which these have the form of this letter, however, it is possible to be in some way approximate it as ge with a combining palatal hook so for uppercase and for lowercase. This form is sometimes used instead of .