As character names:

U+2720 MALTESE CROSS character (✠)

As raw characters:

✠

As a string of HTML entities:

✠

Decoder output:

Byte number 1 is decimal 226, hex 0xE2, octal \342, binary 11100010
This is the first byte of a 3 byte sequence.

Byte number 2 is decimal 156, hex 0x9C, octal \234, binary 10011100
This is continuation byte 1, expecting 1 more.

Byte number 3 is decimal 160, hex 0xA0, octal \240, binary 10100000
This is continuation byte 2, expecting 0 more.

U+2720	MALTESE CROSS
	* historically, the Maltese cross took many forms; the shape shown in the Zapf Dingbats is similar to one known as the Cross Formée
	x (cross patty with right crossbar - 2E50)
	x (circled cross formee - 1F902)