As character names:

U+066D ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR character (٭)

As raw characters:

٭

As a string of HTML entities:

٭

Decoder output:

Byte number 1 is decimal 224, hex 0xE0, octal \340, binary 11100000
This is the first byte of a 3 byte sequence.

Byte number 2 is decimal 153, hex 0x99, octal \231, binary 10011001
This is continuation byte 1, expecting 1 more.

Byte number 3 is decimal 173, hex 0xAD, octal \255, binary 10101101
This is continuation byte 2, expecting 0 more.

U+066D	ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR
	* appearance rather variable
	x (asterisk - 002A)