<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a needle-shaped body which effectively permeates liquid and samples body fluid, is simply manufactured, and whose breakage when it is used is reduced. <;P>;SOLUTION: The needle-shaped body has: a substrate; a projection part projecting from the first face of the substrate; and a non through-hole opening in the side surface of the projection part. The needle-shaped part has a tapered inner peripheral surface in which the non-through-hole becomes smaller in opening area towards a bottom part from the opening part. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT