 Thiêng 聖 is itself a variation of tinh, meaning "constitutive principle of a being", "essence of a thing", "daemon", "intelligence" or "perspicacity".Linh is the mediating bivalency, the "medium", between âm and dương, that is "disorder" and "order", with order (dương, "yang" in Chinese) preferred over disorder (âm, "yin" in Chinese).As bivalency, linh is also metonymic of the inchoate order of creation.