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> そういう訳で、診察所の方の人達と口を利くのはあたしだけといってよい位だったわ。そりゃああたしがお侠{きゃん}だからだけれども、先生の小間使いですもの、そりゃどうしたって診察所との交渉が多いわよ。ええ、こりゃ漢語よ。

甲賀 三郎 著 『ニッケルの文鎮』 [青空文庫
No.1428](http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000260/card1428.html)

I could not understand the actual meaning of 「ええ、こりゃ **漢語** よ。」

According to [some
dictionaries](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%BC%A2%E8%AA%9E-469697), 漢語 just
refers to a word originated in China / a Chinese word. It would not fit this
context...
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What does 「漢語」 mean in this sentence?
The whole passage of your quote can be translated as:

> For that reason, it was almost only me who was able to speak to the people
> of the clinic. Though I admit I look a bit pert, I’m only a messenger girl
> of my master, and naturally have to deal with the doctors and staff of the
> clinic. It requires a bit of understanding of (medical) gibberish.

漢語 literally means Chinese language, but in a colloquial usage it means
"difficult, technical words," because 漢文 was read and understood only by
intellectual people in Meiji and Taisho era, not to mention earlier than those
time.

In 永井荷風’s famous "墨東奇談” published in 1947, much later than this work, the
heroine, Otsuru, a prostitute, whom the hero, Taneda, a school teacher
describes as a beautiful crane among a bevy of chickens - 鶏群の一鶴 - tells him
that her father was “an intellectual man who used to read “四角な文字” (square
letters),” which means 漢字. You’ll understand that 漢字 looks square and Kana
looks round in its shape.

There is also a Japanese word, チンプンカンプン meaning totally incomprehensible or
nonsensical, which came from 珍文漢文 (ridiculous writing in Chinese language).

In net, 漢語 here means “gibberish” or Greek to laymen.
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