Are there any rules for reading "!" as an onomatopoeia?

> 先刻、 ！ ！ ！ ！ ！ ！
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> と、喫茶店ナイルの時計が、私の肩の上で鳴ったが、黒住は、まだ現れなかった。

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onomatopoeia symbols
How to read 「！」 as a clock chime?
I have seen this mark "!" used in an old English language comic, albeit
translated from French. It was used to denote the sound of the pips of the
official clock one could telephone (the service may well still exist). I
imagine if you had to verbalise the pip tones in Japanese you would say 「ピー」
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It depends on the clock.

For a big tower clock, it's ビーン・ボーン, with one of each for each peal. For a
small radio clock, ピー is probably an appropriate rendition, and for a water
clock, カタッン might very well be the way to go.

Ultimately, there's no entirely _right_ answer, and it very much depends on
the context in particular and specifically.

Simply reading it as "The sound this clock makes to mark the hour." to your
mind's eye is probably the most appropriate.
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It's not an answer to your question directly but out of interest "!" does have
a reading in both English and Japanese. In English it can be read as
[bang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_\(Unix\))' and in Japanese it can
be read as [ビックリ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%84%9F%E5%98%86%E7%AC%A6).
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