diff --git a/src/keysym-utf.c b/src/keysym-utf.c
index 0bb9a4f..46bf777 100644
--- a/src/keysym-utf.c
+++ b/src/keysym-utf.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include "xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h"
 #include "utils.h"
 #include "utf8.h"
+#include "keysym.h"
 
 #define NO_KEYSYM_UNICODE_CONVERSION 0
 
@@ -886,8 +887,8 @@ xkb_keysym_to_utf32(xkb_keysym_t keysym)
      * ways. However, changing this after a couple of decades probably won't
      * go well, so it stays as it is.
      */
-    if (0x01000000 <= keysym && keysym <= 0x0110ffff)
-        return keysym - 0x01000000;
+    if (XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET <= keysym && keysym <= XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MAX)
+        return keysym - XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET;
 
     /* search main table */
     return bin_search(keysymtab, ARRAY_SIZE(keysymtab) - 1, keysym);
@@ -920,7 +921,7 @@ xkb_utf32_to_keysym(uint32_t ucs)
             return keysymtab[i].keysym;
 
     /* Use direct encoding if everything else fails */
-    return ucs | 0x01000000;
+    return ucs | XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET;
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/keysym.c b/src/keysym.c
index ef811bd..192ba20 100644
--- a/src/keysym.c
+++ b/src/keysym.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ xkb_keysym_get_name(xkb_keysym_t ks, char *buffer, size_t size)
     }
 
     /* Unnamed Unicode codepoint. */
-    if (ks >= 0x01000100 && ks <= 0x0110ffff) {
+    if (ks >= XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MIN && ks <= XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MAX) {
         const int width = (ks & 0xff0000UL) ? 8 : 4;
         return snprintf(buffer, size, "U%0*lX", width, ks & 0xffffffUL);
     }
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ xkb_keysym_from_name(const char *name, enum xkb_keysym_flags flags)
             return (xkb_keysym_t) val;
         if (val > 0x10ffff)
             return XKB_KEY_NoSymbol;
-        return (xkb_keysym_t) val | 0x01000000;
+        return (xkb_keysym_t) val | XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET;
     }
     else if (name[0] == '0' && (name[1] == 'x' || (icase && name[1] == 'X'))) {
         if (!parse_keysym_hex(&name[2], &val))
@@ -677,10 +677,10 @@ XConvertCase(xkb_keysym_t sym, xkb_keysym_t *lower, xkb_keysym_t *upper)
     }
 
     /* Unicode keysym */
-    if ((sym & 0xff000000) == 0x01000000) {
+    if ((sym & 0xff000000) == XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET) {
         UCSConvertCase((sym & 0x00ffffff), lower, upper);
-        *upper |= 0x01000000;
-        *lower |= 0x01000000;
+        *upper |= XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET;
+        *lower |= XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET;
         return;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/keysym.h b/src/keysym.h
index e636746..fd03f89 100644
--- a/src/keysym.h
+++ b/src/keysym.h
@@ -56,7 +56,13 @@
  * check min keysym when previously there was no reason to.
  */
 /** Minimum keysym value */
-#define XKB_KEYSYM_MIN      0x00000000
+#define XKB_KEYSYM_MIN            0x00000000
+/** Offset to use when converting a Unicode code point to a keysym */
+#define XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET 0x01000000
+/** Minimum Unicode keysym. NOTE: code points in 0..0xff cannot be converted. */
+#define XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MIN    0x01000100
+/** Maximum Unicode keysym, correspoding to the maximum Unicode code point */
+#define XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MAX    0x0110ffff
 
 bool
 xkb_keysym_is_lower(xkb_keysym_t keysym);
diff --git a/test/keysym.c b/test/keysym.c
index d2d1402..b266407 100644
--- a/test/keysym.c
+++ b/test/keysym.c
@@ -166,9 +166,10 @@ main(void)
     assert(test_string("U009f", XKB_KEY_NoSymbol));
     assert(test_string("U00a0", 0x00000a0));
     assert(test_string("U00ff", 0x00000ff));
+    assert(test_string("U0100", XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MIN));
     assert(test_string("U4567", 0x1004567));
     assert(test_string("U1F4A9", 0x0101F4A9));
-    assert(test_string("U10FFFF", 0x110ffff)); /* Max Unicode */
+    assert(test_string("U10FFFF", XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MAX)); /* Max Unicode */
     assert(test_string("U110000", XKB_KEY_NoSymbol));
     /* Unicode: test syntax */
     assert(test_string("U00004567", 0x1004567));         /* OK:  8 digits */
@@ -189,8 +190,8 @@ main(void)
     assert(test_string("0x1", 0x00000001));
     assert(test_string("0x01234567", 0x01234567));
     assert(test_string("0x09abcdef", 0x09abcdef));
-    assert(test_string("0x01000100", 0x01000100)); /* Min Unicode. */
-    assert(test_string("0x0110ffff", 0x0110ffff)); /* Max Unicode. */
+    assert(test_string("0x01000100", XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MIN)); /* Min Unicode. */
+    assert(test_string("0x0110ffff", XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MAX)); /* Max Unicode. */
     assert(test_string(STRINGIFY2(XKB_KEYSYM_MAX), XKB_KEYSYM_MAX));   /* Max keysym. */
     assert(test_string("0x20000000", XKB_KEY_NoSymbol));
     assert(test_string("0xffffffff", XKB_KEY_NoSymbol));
@@ -215,16 +216,16 @@ main(void)
     assert(test_keysym(0x1008FF56, "XF86Close"));
     assert(test_keysym(0x0, "NoSymbol"));
     assert(test_keysym(0x1008FE20, "XF86Ungrab"));
-    assert(test_keysym(0x01000000, "0x01000000"));
+    assert(test_keysym(XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET, "0x01000000"));
     /* Min Unicode */
-    assert(test_keysym(0x01000100, "U0100"));
+    assert(test_keysym(XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MIN, "U0100"));
     assert(test_keysym(0x01001234, "U1234"));
     /* 16-bit unicode padded to width 4. */
     assert(test_keysym(0x010002DE, "U02DE"));
     /* 32-bit unicode padded to width 8. */
     assert(test_keysym(0x0101F4A9, "U0001F4A9"));
     /* Max Unicode */
-    assert(test_keysym(0x0110ffff, "U0010FFFF"));
+    assert(test_keysym(XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MAX, "U0010FFFF"));
     /* Max Unicode + 1 */
     assert(test_keysym(0x01110000, "0x01110000"));
     /* Min keysym. */
@@ -293,14 +294,14 @@ main(void)
     assert(test_utf8(XKB_KEY_KP_Subtract, "-"));
 
     /* Unicode keysyms */
-    assert(test_utf8(0x1000000, NULL) == 0); /* Min Unicode codepoint */
+    assert(test_utf8(XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_OFFSET, NULL) == 0); /* Min Unicode codepoint */
     assert(test_utf8(0x1000001, "\x01"));     /* Currently accepted, but not intended (< 0x100100) */
     assert(test_utf8(0x1000020, " "));        /* Currently accepted, but not intended (< 0x100100) */
     assert(test_utf8(0x100007f, "\x7f"));     /* Currently accepted, but not intended (< 0x100100) */
     assert(test_utf8(0x10000a0, "\xc2\xa0")); /* Currently accepted, but not intended (< 0x100100) */
-    assert(test_utf8(0x1000100, "Ā")); /* Min Unicode keysym */
+    assert(test_utf8(XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MIN, "Ā")); /* Min Unicode keysym */
     assert(test_utf8(0x10005d0, "א"));
-    assert(test_utf8(0x110ffff, "\xf4\x8f\xbf\xbf")); /* Max Unicode */
+    assert(test_utf8(XKB_KEYSYM_UNICODE_MAX, "\xf4\x8f\xbf\xbf")); /* Max Unicode */
     assert(test_utf8(0x0100d800, NULL) == 0); // Unicode surrogates
     assert(test_utf8(0x0100dfff, NULL) == 0); // Unicode surrogates
     assert(test_utf8(0x1110000, NULL) == 0);