As character names:

U+2730 SHADOWED WHITE STAR 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 176, hex 0xB0, octal \260, binary 10110000
This is continuation byte 2, expecting 0 more.

U+2730	SHADOWED WHITE STAR