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I have come across a sentence in anime

> 夜神くん **どうしました** ？

that apparently translates to

> Yagami-kun, is there anything wrong?

But I am having trouble parsing what "どう" means in this context? Does anyone
know what its kanji form is here? Apparently it's a word that combines with する
to form some notion of "what's wrong?". I went through all of the dictionary
words associated with "どう", but was unable one that made sense (though I'm
very new to Japanese).
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Kanji form of "どうしました"?
The どう here is the indeterminate counterpart to immediate (right nearby,
closer to the speaker) こう, proximate (nearby, closer to the listener) そう, and
distal (far away from both speaker and listener) ああ.

  * こう → like this, in this manner
  * そう → like that, in that manner
  * ああ → like that over there, in the manner of that over there
  * どう → like what, in what manner → how

In English, we idiomatically ask _**what** happened?_ to inquire about an
event.

In Japanese, we idiomatically ask **どう** しました? (literally _" **how** did it
do?"_) to inquire about an event.

This is just another way in which the two languages differ. When learning any
new language, we have to learn the different individual words -- **and** we
have to learn the "style" or idiom of how each language puts those words
together.

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**UPDATE:** To respond directly to the original question as asked, _" Does
anyone know what its kanji form is here?"_:

As noted in the comments, there is a rare kanji spelling 如何. I am more
accustomed to seeing this used to spell synonym _ikaga_ instead of _dō_ , but
it has historically been used for both.

That said, in everyday Japanese, there isn't any kanji spelling in common use.
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